A recent horn

[Chuck Burrows]

This one started out as a plain eastern backwoods style green horn with a red painted pine plug made by our own Capt Bridger aka Mike Clemons.
I used that horn as the base for what might have been a period eastern horn gone west and decorated to the owners's desires as well as some needed "repairs". There were in fact lots of eastern horns sent west so it does follow the documenation for such horns - that's the Librarian in me speaking
Anyway Mike had scraped this one thin so I decided not to cover the whole horn with the rawhide repair as I have on others - just a rear end reapir and a mouth repair. I then added some brass tacks, pound beadwork and some chicken scratching on the rawhide. The mouth plug was also repaired with rawhide and linen cord wrap that attaches to the horn.

The straps are made from braintan and have some beadwork added. They attach to the shot bag via iron harness rings and are adjustable via two iron harness buckles. The buckles are attached in such a way that there are not loose tongues to get in the way (one of my pet peeves is things getting in the way) ala the more modern Conway buckles, but with a regular tongue.
The whole piece was then given a light aging.